Adjustable counter-stool.



A. ADLER.

ADJUSTABLE COUNTER STOOL. (Application filed Sept. 25. 1901.)

No. 697,9. Patented Apr. I5, I902.

(No Model.)

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AUGUSTA ADLER, OF TACOMA, VASHINGTON.

ADJUSTABLE COUNTER-STOOL.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,911, dated April 15, 1902.

Application filed September 25,1901. Serial No. 76,470. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, AUGUSTA ADLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 620 L street, in the city of Tacoma, county of Pierce, and State of WVashington, have invented a new and useful Adjustable Counter- Stool, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention pertains to stools used in mercantile houses, lunch-rooms, and other places where seats are desired for the customers before the counter or table.

The chief object of my invention is to provide a counter-stool that can be varied in height, that is rigid when set up, and that may be taken apart and packed within a minimum space.

A further object of my invention is to provide a stool or pedestal for the home and to be used as a support for jar'dinieres, vases, or statuettes.

I attain these objects by means of the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of my invention as set up for use. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section of one of the joints and shows how it is put together. Fig. 3 illustrates the joint connection complete as designed to be.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.

My inventioncomprises a low bell-shaped base A,preferably made of sheet metal pressed into shape, a similar top piece B, and one or more sections of tubular standards 0, D, and E, so made as to telescope together and into the base and top pieces, as indicated in Fig. l. The tubular standards are made in sections, with a view to using one or more as the desired height of the stool may require. Should one of the sections not be required, it is placed in aspring-receptacle F, attached to the top piece B, as seen at E. Should the desired height of the stool require that two of the sections be dispensed with at any time, the section is to be removed and inserted in the spring-receptacle G, attached to B. By

this means the stool may be reduced in height and the sections of the tubular standards be safely held in their respective spring-receptacles at a convenient place for use when wanted.

The top piece B is provided with a finished seat H, of wood or other suitable materials, attached thereto. The base A may set free on the floor or be screwed thereto, as indicated at a a.

The base A is provided with a neck-piece or sleeve L, neatly fitted and brazed within an opening in the top of the same. This sleeve or neck has a smooth groove M formed on its interior. The section of the tubular standard 0 fitted therein is provided gWltll a spring N, attached to its interior, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3. A small hard-metal ball is held by this spring by means of a hole in the side of A and in the spring, said holes each being too small to allow the ball to escape. When 0 is set into L and slipped down till 0 comes in contact therewith, the spring is thereby thrown back, as seen in Fig. 2. On reaching the groove M the ball is sprung therein, as shown in Fig. 3, and the standard is thereby held in place. The standard can be with drawn by a quick pull. The stop or lug P,

brazed on 0, holds the standard from sinking farther into A when the seat is occupied.

The top piece B is provided with a grooved sleeve R, identically as described for the base A, and the section D of the tubular standard with a spring and ball, as described for G, by means of which it is held in place. The section E is designed to go between sections 0 and D.

In addition to using my invention for a counter-stool it is designed to be used in the home and other places for a stand or pedestal on which a jardiniere, vase, statue,orother ornament may be placed. The size and height may be varied to meet the requirements.

The sectional tubular standard is a feature derived from a former improvement in a tourist-stool for which I obtained Letters Patent No. 669,497, issued March 12, 1901.

The novel features as herein set forth in my improvement in counter-stools are designed for the purposes mentioned.

My invention made as described can be packed and shipped in the knockdown, so as to occupy a minimum space.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a stool, the combination with a bellshaped base and bell-shaped top piece, of the intermediate telescoping sectional tubular standard, a cup or sleeve member to the bellshaped portions in which the standard fits so as to be'removable therefrom, and a ball and spring for holding the sleeve member and standard together, the standard and sleeve being formed one with an annular groove and the other with an aperture to receive the ball, substantially as described.

2. A stool comprising a base, a seat, an intermediate standard, and a cup or sleeve member With which the standard telescopes, one of said parts having a ball-socket and the other an aperture in its wall, a ball in said aperture, and a spring for pressing the ball into the ball-socket, substantially as described.

3. A stool comprising a base, a seat, an intermediate standard, and a cup or sleeve member with which the standard telescopes,

one of said parts having a ball-socket and the other an aperture in its wall, a ball in said aperture, and a spring pressing the ball into the ball-socket, said spring being formed with an opening in which a portion of the ball fits, substantially as described.

4:. A stool comprising a base, a seat, an intermediate standard, and a cup or sleeve member with which the standard telescopes, one of said parts having a ball-socket and the other an aperture in its wall, a ball in said aperture, a spring for pressing the ball into the ball-socket, and a stop for limiting the movement of the standard and sleeve member one within the other, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' AUGUSTA ADLER.

Witnesses:

JOHN BAMBRIDGE, EDYTHE BROWN. 

